SANBI Flora Keys - Classification of Apiaceae
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Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
  • Drude's (1898) classification system is likely to be modified as a result of evidence from DNA sequence data, e.g. Plunkett, Soltis & Soltis (1997)
  • Some genera of the Hydrocotyloideae ( Centella , Hydrocotyle ) for example, have already been transferred to the Araliaceae but a formal new classification system for the two families ( Apiaceae and Araliaceae ) has not yet been published
  • Drude's system is not followed here, but the three subfamilies represented in southern Africa are as follows:
  • Subfamily Hydrocotyloideae :
    • Hennas
  • Subfamily Saniculoideae :
    • Alepidea
    • Arctopus
    • Sanicula
  • Subfamily Apioideae :
    • Agrocharis
    • * Ammi
    • Anginon
    • Annesorhiza
    • * Anthriscus
    • Apium
    • Berula
    • Bupleurum
    • Capnophyllum
    • Chamarea
    • Choritaenia
    • Conium
    • * Coriandrum
    • * Cyclospermum
    • Dasispermum
    • * Daucus
    • Deverra
    • Diplolophium
    • Dracosciadium
    • Ezosciadium
    • * Foeniculum
    • Glia
    • Hermas
    • Heteromorpha
    • Itasina
    • Lichtensteinia
    • Marlothiell
    • Peucedanum
    • Phlyctidocarpa
    • Pimpinella
    • Polemannia
    • Polemanniopsis
    • Sium
    • Sonderina
    • Steganotaenia
    • Stenosemis
    • Stoibrax
    • Torilis